On December 16th, 2016, Pro. A BRICE SINSIN, the president of University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, and Prof. JULIEN A. GAETAN, the president of the Congucius Institute at University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin abomey - Carla d university Confucius institute), visited our university. Our president, Prof. Liu Defu received the guests.

Prof. Liu Defu expressed a warm welcome to the guests, and introduced our university's basic situation in the fields of disciplines, school-running characteristics, talent cultivation, etc. He hoped that our two universities could develop cooperation in our preponderant discipline to realize resource sharing and promote mutual development. President A BRICE SINSIN introduced the basic situation of University of Abomey-Calavi and expressed his pleasure of visiting Hubei University of Technology. He hoped that the two universities would develop cooperation in various forms, such as 2+2 cooperative degree program, constructing long-term friendly cooperation partnership with our university.

After the meeting, the guests went on a field trip around our university's laboratories and scientific research bases, such as the Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center of Industrial fermentation, the Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center of Efficient Utilization of Solar Energy (the Solar Energy Research Center).